Biography Luigi Sabatelli

Luigi
Sabatelli was an Italian painter, printmaker and draughtsman. After
training in Florence in the Neo-classical tradition, he won a
scholarship and settled in Rome between 1789 and 1794. His patron
Tommaso Puccini was an intellectual and connoisseur who later became
Director of the Gallerie Fiorentine. He was first attracted to the
constructive rigour of François-Guillaume Ménageot, who taught at the
Académie de France, but later he became interested in a more
contemporary classicism in the style of David, and in particular in the
rather austere variant represented by such pupils of David's in Rome as
François-Xavier Fabre. Sabatelli borrowed explici
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